Animal Concepts

The process of working on these concept pieces were pretty simple, to start with I would sketch a rough outline of what the animal looks like from the side, front, and back. Using references of the animal from the internet, once I have that rough reference sketch I drew another rough sketch, this time being the origami/geomectric style sketch. 

Once I have gone over in the rough sketch again I now have the rough origami outline. The last stage consists of me using a solid black pen tool to define the rough lines to a hard outline. 

Now I have the hard outline I can colour it in use the prechoosen colours, using the lighter shade for full colour and the darker colour for shading.

Here are my finish concepts of the animals/emotions. I drew them using Photoshop and a Wacom graphics tablet. 

It is possible that for my sculptures I won't be including this last animal due to time and resources, also I would struggle to keep it standing up right. There is also the fact of that in this new concept the idea of this sculpture doesn't really make sense.

Storyboards

Here are the storyboards of the animtions, these are quite brief just to get the look of the story across.

Finding a Composer

For the music side of my piece I was going to use a song that inspired this piece, however my tutor thought that it would be better to have a similar sounding piece with no lyrics tp put with my animation the only problem is I'd need a composer to do that and somehow direct them into creating a similar sounding score to what I was going to do originally.

Using a composer would help me create a instrumental piece or instrumental version of the song I was originally going to use.

Finding an Animator

Whilst thinking about my project in the lonely hours of the night I started panicking over the fact I'd have to animate the whole thing when I'm only good at doing still imagery, so I came up with the idea to get some help the animation course as I knew someone from there. 

I felt a little cheeky asking for something big so I kept the favour as simple and easy as possible. So I asked if it was possible for her to animate my animals roughly so I have the simple animation down and the frames for the animation. Then all I do the rest which will be define the lines and colour in each frame. Of course I won't need her help/work till next year so in the mean time I will work on storyboards to help her with animation and if needed I will stand beside her or be on call for when needs help.  

After asking a couple of people they were unfortunately unable to help me with the animation. 

Layout

As I re-doing my Earth vs humans project I need to redo the layout and the list of equipment needed for the installation layout. It's not accurate measurements for the layout just rough estimation.

New Development

After a one to one tutorial to discuss my idea in depth some additional thoughts were thrown out there. One of the ideas was to, instead of using an already produced song, I should find a composer to help create a score to go with my animation. However, I am not 100% on having just a score as the song and the animation are meant to be linked. So as I am not sure, I am thinking of doing both a score and keeping the original music so I can compare them when the animation is nearer completion and see which one I prefer.

This came from the idea of having a story going along with music that helps to tell the story, like Fantasia.

Final Layout

This is the hoped layout for the what the final installation would be like. Also I'm hoping it to be along side my Earth vs Humans installation.

Merging of Animals and Emotions

Emotions:

Depression and anxiety = Off green
Depression = dark blue
Anxiety = orange
Happy = green
Sad = Light blue
Angry = red
Fear =  yellow
Love = pink

Animals:

Depression and anxiety = 

Depression = Grizzly Bear 

Anxiety = Stag

Happy = Dog

Sad = Panda

Angry = Bull

Fear =  Rabbit

Love = Swan